Teaching Assistants

Our teaching assistants come from a wide range of backgrounds and have an equally wide range of skills. They include one fully-qualified teacher and two with HLTA qualifications (Higher Level). They provide a range of support throughout the school from assisting individual children with special needs to general classroom support and small group work. They support all the curriculum areas as well as providing specialist skills in speech therapy, science, gardening, recycling, cooking; sport; art & craft and music. They are an invaluable asset to our school and a key part of the pastoral system.

Mrs Newns

Mrs Newns has lived in Wotton for sixteen years and has worked at The British School for seven years. She is married with three children who have all attended The British School. She particularly enjoys helping the children to be more creative and loves getting messy with the Reception children! She is the Curriculum Lead for the Kindergarten Committtee and helps to run Code Club. Outside school her interests are reading, walking her dog Roxy and watching her children in various sporting events.

Mrs Kendall

Mrs Kendall has worked with children and young people for almost 30 years. She loves the challenge of discovering how individual children learn and supporting them towards achieving their goals. She joined the British school team in May 2012 as a one to one support worker. In her own time she enjoys spending time with her grandchildren, riding her bike, sewing and reading the occasional good book. Her dog takes her for long walks at weekends.

Mrs Jackson

Mrs Jackson has worked at The British School for twenty years in both KS1 and KS2. She has been married for 28 years and has three grown up daughters. In her spare time she enjoys reading, walking and swimming..

Mrs Symanowski

Mrs Symanowski has lived in Kingswood, Wotton under Edge, for seven years with her husband and three children. She began working in her children’s Primary School as a parent helper when her youngest son started school 6 years ago, during which time she trained to be a teaching assistant. She has been working at The British School since January 2013. Outside of school she enjoys running and supporting her children in their many activities!

Mrs Butler

Mrs Butler began by helping in the school as a volunteer when her children were small and she enjoyed it so much that she trained to become a teaching assistant. She enjoys walking, going to the cinema, running and spending time with her husband and four children.

Mrs Fisher

Mrs Fisher has lived in Wotton for 15 years and she has worked at The British School for eight years. She is married with two grown up children.

Mrs Shepherd

I joined The British School in 2012 working as a play Worker in the Out of School Club. Whilst doing this I also undertook some part time voluntary work within the Reception Class and Kindergarten. This progressed to a part time TA position . i have worked primarily in Key Stage 1 although had a brief stint in KS2. My TA work focuses on supporting children with SEN which is extremely fulfilling.

Mrs Sutton

Mrs Sutton has lived in Wotton for two years with her husband and three children, She previously worked in a secondary school in Hampshire, with KS3 and KS4 children, as a Learning Support Assistant. After having a career break, to bring up her children, she began volunteering in her sons year 2 class and enjoyed it so much she decided she would like to work as a Teaching Assistant in a Primary School. Outside of School she enjoys spending time with Family and friends. She particularly enjoys photography and hiking.